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Listen to “Wordfest Presents: The 2017 Poetry Cabaret” on Spreaker. *This episode contains explicit content* A subversive cocktail of poetic voices served with a dash of bitters and a zesty twist. Each of these talented authors brings to the Wordfest stage a unique perspective on topics ranging from feminism, LGBTQ+...

Listen to “Wordfest Presents: How to Fall in Love with Anyone” on Spreaker. Have you ever asked a stranger 36 questions, stared into their eyes for four minutes, and then fell in love? Author Mandy Len Catron did just that and wrote a book called, How to Fall in Love...

(Calgary, AB — Sunday, October 15) At the “Family Ties” event at the Glenbow Museum Theatre this weekend as part of the 22nd annual Festival, Wordfest announced Joey Comeau as the 2017 Anne Green Award recipient. The annual award is given to an artist whose work explores and challenges the...

We are giving you an insider’s look into the 2017 Wordfest festival. From Oct. 9-15 the most delicious writers from Canada and the rest of the world will be serving up life-changing ideas at theatres around Calgary. Thank you for sharing your most anticipated authors with us! We can’t wait...

Gabrielle Hamilton, chef/owner of New York City’s renowned restaurant, Prune, treated Calgary audiences to a delicious conversation in the Wordfest Engagement Lab on July 14th, 2017. A James Beard Foundation winner, she is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of...

There’s something for everyone at Wordfest, which is why you won’t want to pass on this opportunity to bring your message to our growing circles of enthusiastic fans. Our 68-page Festival Guide is a full-colour, high-gloss keepsake and promotional piece profiling all 80+ artists and books appearing in dozens of Wordfest events from October 10 to 15, 2017.

In the greatest double header of the season, Mark Kingwell and Stacey May Fowles knocked the cover off the ball in the Wordfest Lab at Memorial Park Library. Both heavy hitters presented new books that toss a curve ball into our attitudes about baseball, both on and off the field,...

Omar El Akkad presented his first published novel, American War in the Wordfest Lab on May 24, 2017. The novel depicts America struggling with civil war, a manufactured plague, and environmental fallback due to global warming. The book provides readers with a frighteningly realistic depiction of the future of the...

Mark Kingwell sits down with Paul Kennedy from CBC Ideas to chat about the essentially idyllic nature of baseball. Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure—a very successful batter manages a base hit in only three of every ten at-bats—Mark Kingwell argues that there is no...